September has seen the garden gradually slowing down. Plants are coming to an end, but before they die down completely they are taking on autumn tints. There are still late flowering perennials to keep the colour going for a while. The sedum is lovely, I have it in the front, side and back garden. The Michaelmas daisies are in flower now, the dahlias are struggling on--I'm not good at growing dahlias.
Work in the garden has been about deadheading and tidying up. I have been sorting out and cleaning pots and seed trays, cleaning and tidying the shed and making up pots of autumn bedding plants.
I spent an energetic half hour or so digging up a clump of yellow irises . I'm planning on moving a few things round in the spring or over the winter. There are two clumps of blue irises which also need digging up, but I haven't had the energy to tackle those as well. The irises are at the back of a border which has become over crowded by a shrub and other plants and the blue ones didn't flower well this year. So I am going to find another spot in the garden for them where they should get more sun and hopefully they will perform better next year.
We had a late summer visit to RHS Harlow Carr early in September. We hadn't been all year and there were lots of changes to the gardens. The late summer flowers in shades of deep pink, yellows and oranges were lovely.
I am linking this blog to Sarah's blog at 'Down By the Sea' for her monthly 'Through the Garden Gate' post
